How much revenue did LAPIN make?

$46k–$124k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LAPIN sell?

Q: How many copies did LAPIN sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 355 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $46k–$124k after Steam's cut $84k–$190k before the cut; from 355 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left LAPIN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LAPIN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 760k–1.6M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like LAPIN

The middle of these games

≈ 760k–1.6M copies

≈ $4.0M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies, ≈ $24.6M–$66.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hand-drawn (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Precision Platformer + Great Soundtrack + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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